Word: cfia
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Established in 1958 to respond to the intellectual and political pressures of Cold War diplomacy, the Center paralleled similar ones at MIT, Princeton and Columbia. A strong sense of mission, veteran members say, characterized the CFIA's beginnings; scholars hoped to address the "unprecedented task" of stabilizing the sharply divided, bipolar, and newly technologically equipped world. The need the Center first defined was twofold--for wider knowledge, and for men to apply that knowledge to foreign affairs. Accordingly, a staff of permanent faculty members was established to complement a Fellows Program, in which "practitioners"--diplomats, government officials and military officials...
...influence student thinking. The protestors played on a genuine concern of at least some of the students about Vietnam." In October, 1970, a bomb went off in the office of a Center Fellow, Detonated, it substantially damaged a floor of offices and the library. A final attack against the CFIA--ironically, Huntington recalls, on his birthday--brought more than 1000 Boston-area demonstrators marching to the CFIA, in April 1972. There, more than 100 of them broke in and ransacked the building, setting fire to papers and books. The damage was estimated at $25,000, not to mention the loss...
Along with the structural growth, the CFIA had expanded the amount and range of its research between 1980 and 1982, income from research grants jumped almost fourfold--aided by a new endowed chair in international economics, a gift from the Frank Boas Foundation. Research expenditures grew by 171 percent. And all of the Center's approximately $2 million in this year's budget is--and always has been--independent of the University...
Several Harvard programs, notably the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) and the Nieman Foundation, have been instrumental over the years in bringing refugees to Cambridge for temporary appointments. But notes CFIA Executive Officer Chester Haskell. "We don't see ourselves as a halfway house for political refugees." Haskell says fellowships are awarded not on the basis of scholars political beliefs or situation, but strictly according to whether our selection committee believes they will contribute in a research area. I've never noticed any policy that takes a person's politics into account. And his statements mirror those of other Harvard...
...announcement this spring that exiled South Korean scholar Kim Dae Jung, a former South Korean presidential candidate, would come to Harvard as a visiting scholar next year has refocused attention on the University's relationship with its frequent dissident visitors. Kim, who has had a standing invitation to the CFIA since 1973, says he chose Harvard over an invitation from Georgetown University because "Harvard is the great symbol of American democracy." Although some of his supporters fear for his safety while here--he was kidnapped from Japan by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in 1973 and sentenced to death...